"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

Humor, Cleverness

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"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."

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